Sentences with phrase «of orb weavers»

They have also looked for the activity of similar genes in the silk glands and other tissues of cobweb - weaving spiders, a subset of orb weavers that build 3D webs instead of flat ones.

-LSB-...] It was not long after my dive into the world of orb weavers that I started taking an even deeper interest in all spiders.

Others include species of orb weaver, especially those from the genus Celaenia, says spider expert Robert Whyte.

But the velvet spider genome, together with that of the orb weaver and the house spider, has exposed an unexpected variety of silk genes — «a lot more than we thought,» Coddington says.

One of the orb weaver's silk genes is even expressed in the spider's venom gland.

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Not exact matches

For example, what math was used to calculate the capability of dragline silk from an orb weaver spider that is lighter than cotton, yet ounce for ounce stronger than steel, tougher than kevlar (used in bullet - proof vests), that if the silk were 0.4 inch thick with strands 1.6 inches apart and enlarged the size of a football field, could stop a jumbo jet in flight, that is flying at an average speed of about 600 mph?

And I am glad you are not into the spider smashing business, I get so upset when I think of garden orb weavers being killed, yeah I've walked through many a sticky web only to worry where the heck is the spider, but they are harmless and very very unlikely to bite you, they are scaredy cats!

* Correction 2 November, 2:30 p.m.: An earlier version of this story incorrectly described the silk by some orb weavers as woolly when viscid is accurate.

Contrary to earlier studies, the analyses divided orb weavers, the many spider species that make the classic spiral webs and cobwebs, into two groupings and put them on very different branches of the tree.

Researchers have sequenced full genomes of three species — the golden orb - weaver, the African social velvet spider, and the common house spider — and have done more limited genetic and protein studies on many others.

Orb weavers have seven types of silk glands for making webs and egg cases and capturing prey.

Hayashi and her colleagues have recently identified which silk genes are active in each of the golden orb - weaver's seven types of glands.

Orb weavers that produce fuzzy, sticky fibers called cribellate silk ended up in a part of the tree that includes many spiders that don't make webs at all, whereas orb weavers that make a viscid silk are on their own branOrb weavers that produce fuzzy, sticky fibers called cribellate silk ended up in a part of the tree that includes many spiders that don't make webs at all, whereas orb weavers that make a viscid silk are on their own branorb weavers that make a viscid silk are on their own branch.

So she was happy to join with Benjamin Voight from the University of Pennsylvania, Ingi Agnarsson from the University of Vermont in Burlington, and others to decipher and characterize the genome of the golden orb - weaver (Nephila clavipes).

To study their rhythms, Darrell Moore of East Tennessee State University and his team recorded the activity patterns of different orb - weaver species.

The missing sector orb weaver, however, is more of an indoors spider.

Two of the most common are the missing sector orb weaver (Zygiella x-notata) and the lace webbed spider (Amaurobius sp.).

Nephila clavipes spiders (Araneae: Nephilidae) keep track of captured prey counts: Testing for a sense of numerosity in an orb - weaver.